At least 55 elderly people living in a nursing home in Gyumri have been infected with the coronavirus following similar outbreaks of the disease reported at Armenia’s two other elderly care centers.
Health Minister Arsen Torosian insisted on Thursday that the authorities are still able to cope with the continuing coronavirus epidemic in Armenia after the number of new infections there hit a fresh daily high of 771.
Armenia still has enough hospital beds to treat increased numbers of coronavirus patients, the Ministry of Health insisted on Wednesday.
Armenian hospitals are increasingly struggling to cope with growing coronavirus cases and may soon be unable to give life-saving treatment to all infected people hospitalized in serious condition, Health Minister Arsen Torosian said on Friday.
Dozens of residents and employees of a nursing home in Yerevan were hospitalized or isolated at the weekend after testing positive for coronavirus.
The lifting of government restrictions on people’s movements and business activity has helped to accelerate the spread of coronavirus in Armenia, the Ministry of Health said after reporting another daily high of new COVID-19 cases on Monday.
Armenia’s Health Minister Arsen Torosian and Minister for Local Government and Infrastructures Suren Papikian have isolated themselves after officials from their ministries tested positive for coronavirus.
Armenian health authorities are still able to hospitalize or isolate all people testing positive for coronavirus as it continues to spread in the country, the Ministry of Health said on Friday.
Health Minister Arsen Torosian acknowledged on Wednesday that Armenia’s coronavirus outbreak is deteriorating after the daily number of confirmed infections in the country reached a new record high following the virtual lifting of a nationwide lockdown.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Thursday again urged Armenians to strictly follow social distancing rules, warning of the risk of a fresh upsurge in coronavirus cases in the country.
Responding to strong criticism from journalists and media watchdogs, Armenia’s government has significantly eased its controversial restrictions on the spread of information about the coronavirus pandemic.
Police in Armenia stopped cars and pedestrians and warned other citizens to stay at home on Wednesday as they began enforcing a nationwide lockdown aimed at stopping the spread of coronavirus.
A teenage girl from Gyumri who was severely beaten up by a man who had also beaten her mother to death has regained consciousness, according to a hospital official in Yerevan.
An Armenian man who returned from Iran late last week remains the sole person diagnosed with coronavirus in Armenia so far, Health Minister Arsen Torosian said on Tuesday.
The work of Armenia’s sole medical center specializing in the treatment of HIV and AIDS was disrupted on Friday as 80 percent of its employees resigned in protest against the government’s decision to merge it with another clinic.
Fifty-two Armenians were evacuated from Iran on Wednesday as the Islamic Republic continued to grapple with the spread of coronavirus.
Armenia partly closed its border with Iran and suspended flights between the two neighboring states for two weeks on Monday, citing the need to guard against a new coronavirus that has killed at least 12 people in the Islamic Republic.
A former Armenian deputy minister of health standing trial on corruption charges insisted on Monday he did not take a bribe moments before being caught by law-enforcement officers one year ago.
Two Chinese citizens were taken on Wednesday to a hospital in Armenia and tested there for possible cases of a dangerous new virus which has infected thousands of people in China and killed at least 132 of them.
More than 200 obstetrician-gynecologists voiced support on Tuesday for the director of Armenia’s main maternity hospital charged with arranging illegal adoptions of Armenian children by foreigners.
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